Best 269 quotes of Julia Cameron on MyQuotes

A career must be husbanded. Care must be taken. Everyday must bring some small bit of progress. How would an artist with any self-worth act? Act that way.

Accept the fact that you're an artist and stop second-guessing yourself. Just do it.

Adversity is a misperception as all works toward the good.

All change can be expansive in potential. The choice is ours.

All of us contain a divine, expressive spark, a creative candle intended to light our path and that of our fellows.

All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.

All too often too often we try to push, pull, outline and control our ideas instead of letting them grow organically. The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This makes life lovely and lively.

An artist requires the upkeep of creative solitude. An artist requires the healing of time alone. Without this period of recharging, our artist becomes depleted. Until we experience the freedom of solitude, we cannot connect authentically. We may be enmeshed, but we are not encountered. Art lies in the moment of encounter. We meet our truth and we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression.

And [now] I think I’ll probably write a lot about birds. My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I’ve hung bird feeders … for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that.

And why are we supposed to be serious about God? Did God show up and crack the whip? “You there, Annie in Ohio, I see you laughing a lot and frankly it really pisses Me off . . . “ (50)

Anger is meant to be acted on. It is not meant to be acted out. Anger points the direction. We are meant to use anger as fuel to take the actions we need to move where our anger points us. With a little thought, we can usually translate the message that our anger is sending us.

Answered prayers are scary. They imply responsibility. You asked for it. Now that you've got it, what are you going to do? Why else the cautionary phrase Watch out for what you pray for; you might just get it?

Any little bit of experimenting in self-nurturance is very frightening for most of us.

Apologies are the art of spiritual housekeeping. They help to put and keep our lives in order.

Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect. When we are dealing with people's dreams - their visions, really - we are in the realm of the sacred. We are involved with forces and energies larger than our own. We are engaged in a sacred transaction of which we know only a little: the shadow, not the shape.

Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.

Art is born in attention.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.

Art is one of the few careers without a mandatory retirement age.

Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears – fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure”.

Artists are visionaries. We routinely practice a form of faith, seeing clearly and moving toward a creative goal that shimmers in the distance - often visible to us, but invisible to those around us.

Artists love other artists.  Shadow artists are gravitating to their rightful tribe but cannot yet claim their birthright.  Very often audacity, not talent, makes one person an artist and another a shadow artist-hiding in the shadows, afraid to step out and expose the dream to the light, fearful that it will disintegrate to the touch.

Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing.

As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it.

As artists, we belong to an ancient and holy tribe. We are the carriers of the truth that spirit moves through us all. When we deal with one another, we are dealing not merely with our own human personalities but also with the unseen but ever-present throng of ideas, visions, stories, poems, songs, sculptures, art-as-facts that crowd the temple of consciousness waiting their turn to be born.

As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them.

As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time.

As children we hoard and gloat over words. Words give ownership: we name our world and we claim it...Children trust the power of words.

A sketch book freezes time. It is an instantaneous form of meditation focusing us on the worth of every passing moment.

As we lose our vagueness about ourself, our values, our life situation, we become available to the moment. It is there, in the particular, that we contact the creative self. Art lies in the moment of encounter: we meet our truth and we meet ourselves; we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression .

As we move toward our dreams, we move toward our divinity.

As we open our creative channel to the creator, many gentle but powerful changes are to be expected.

As you explore your inner world, your outer world will come more sharply into focus. As you face your imagined barriers, you will encounter real ones, as well.

As you move toward a dream, the dream moves toward you.

At it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation.

At root, a pearl is a 'disturbance' a beauty caused by something that isn't supposed to be there, about which something needs to be done. It is the interruption of equilibrium that creates beauty. Beauty is a response to provocation, to intrusion. ... The pearl's beauty is made as a result of insult.

Balance is the key to my serenity. I attain balance by listening to my inner wisdom and to the wisdom of others. There is no situation in which I cannot find a point of balance. There is no circumstance in which I cannot find inner harmony. As I ask to be led into equilibrium and clarity, I will find that my answers come to me. I am wiser than I know, more capable of right action and attitudes than I yet believe. In every event, I seek the balance point of God's action through me.

Because if you're trying to write and you have unlimited time, you can procrastinate an unlimited account, but if you have limited time, you rush to the page trying to get something down in the little bit of fragment of time that you have, and you may write a great deal that way.

Become willing to see the hand of God and accept it as a friend's offer to help you with what you are doing.

Being in the mood to write, like being in the mood to make love, is a luxury that isn't necessary in a long-term relationship. Just as the first caress can lead to a change of heart, the first sentence, however tentative and awkward, can lead to a desire to go just a little further.

But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play?" Yes . . . the same age you will be if you don't.

By listening to the creator within, we are led to our right path.

Choice by choice, moment by moment, I build the necklace of my day, stringing together the choices that form artful living.

Creativity flourishes when we have a sense of safety and self-acceptance.

Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.

Creativity is a spiritual issue.

Creativity is God's gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God.

Creativity is God's will for us and should be practiced like any other spiritual practice -a day at a time.

Creativity is not and never has been sensible.